The detrimental impact of social isolation has brought the issue from the caregiving community to mainstream. We’ve seen the families struggling to connect with their loved ones and how creativity and technology has helped to bring these families together. However, there is another type of social isolation in our midst,...
The people in our company are currently caregivers of family members or have been caregivers. Several have family members with Alzheimer’s or dementia, such as company founder Steve Popovich. Steve’s a connectivity technology veteran who’s spent his career solving problems for others using technology. Yet when he looked for a...
The Alzheimer’s Association states that 60% of persons with dementia (PWD) or Alzheimer’s will wander during the course of the disease. Wandering can take two forms: walking in patterns which is typically not harmful; and wandering that leads to a person going missing. While many of those afflicted with Alzheimer’s...
